The Catmage Chronicles
Andy thought he was going crazy when a talking cat showed up at his front door. He couldn’t have been more wrong.Goldeneyes is a Catmage – a cat with human intelligence and magical abilities. Andy is an eighth grader who is smart, impulsive, and trying to avoid the school bully at all costs. A prophecy threw them together. There’s just one problem: Goldeneyes can’t stand humans.The Catmage world is heading toward war. Goldeneyes and Andy must try to stop the enemy from getting stronger. And they must save a powerful Catmage who’s been kidnapped. For Goldeneyes, it’s personal. That Catmage is her grandmother.Andy and Goldeneyes must try to put aside their differences. If they can’t, the enemy will soon be too powerful to defeat…
Tag Archives: Lebanon
Happy Monday briefs
If Israel did this, there’s be ten UN resolutions about it: Hamas beat residents out of their own homes and then razed the buildings. Why? Because Hamas says the homes were built on land the Palestinians don’t own. Hm. Double … Continue reading
What’s another word for ‘briefly’?
In any other country, he’d be tried for treason: So, when a Member of the Knesset calls for an Islamic caliphate to be established in Israel and says that Jews can “manage their own matters themselves,” this is not racist, … Continue reading
Out of context
What’s missing from this AP piece on the Lebanese president insisting he won’t ask Hizballah to disarm? Lebanon’s president says the government cannot ask Hezbollah to give up its weapons at a time of heightened tension with Israel. A U.N. … Continue reading
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Your Thursday morning snark
Stop making sense, you racist! One of the drafters of the Arizona immigration law has an op-ed in the Times that points out the lies in the propaganda of the law’s opponents—including, of course, our Constitutional scholar of a president. … Continue reading
Posted in American Scene, Hamas, Israel Derangement Syndrome, Lebanon
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Fisking Robert Fisk on Scuds
I normally don’t even bother reading the man whose name became the blogosphere’s first verb (“fisk”), but I was researching a post, and I came across Fisk’s take on Hizballah having Scud missiles. This is what leaped out at me: … Continue reading
Misplaced honors
Recently there were a couple of items of how the United States is honoring (in different ways) people they shouldn’t be. Martin Kramer on the American Ambassador to Afghanistan honoring a past Afghan hero. No doubt it made diplomatic sense … Continue reading
Iran’s cat’s paw
When I first read this analysis of Lebanese President Sa’ad Hariri’s trip to Syria, Lebanon Drama Adds Act With Leader’s Trip to Syria , I was astonished by its anodyne language. After all what was being described was the capitulation … Continue reading
Watch the media spin
The AP released a brief story on the Lebanese government affirming Hezbullah’s defiance of UN Security Council Resolution 1701 to disarm. This version holds too much of the truth in it. Prediction: Mention of 1701 will be dropped to the … Continue reading
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Lebanon’s descent
In Lebanon, the raidicals keep on strengthening their positions. Peter Berkowitz writes (via memeorandum): Six days later, on March 14, a Sunni, Christian, and Druze crowd of more than 1 million–a quarter of Lebanon’s population–shook their nation by gathering in … Continue reading
You will not be assimilated; resistance is vital
Occasionally, a little inconvenient truth slips out in a news report. In the case of School dropout high among Palestinian refugees: UN, it’s this: Lebanese law prevents Palestinian refugees from practising most professions or owning property. Clearly the article was … Continue reading
IDF commandos thwart Iranian arms shipment to Syria
The IDF is showing Iran that Israel has a very long reach. Commandos took control of a ship carrying weapons for Syria and Hezbollah. An Israeli Navy commando force seized control over a suspicious vessel in the early hours of … Continue reading
Compare and contrast
This is why Israel has more Nobel prize winners than the entire Arab world combined. Lebanese chefs prepared a massive plate of hummus weighing over two tons Saturday that broke a world record organizers said was previously held by Israel … Continue reading
Snarking
Turk to Israel: No, really, we love you, you baby-killing bastards: Yeah, right. The Turkish producer of a film about Palestinians that depicts IDF soldiers murdering young girls for no apparent reason other than they’re Zionist child-killers says that just … Continue reading
Breaking UN resolutions only counts if you’re Israel
How many times have we heard the tired old argument that Israel is in violation of dozens of UN resolutions? The fact that the resolutions that most people think of are nonbinding makes no difference; Israeli is in violation of … Continue reading
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